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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!osyjm From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: AST Power Exec wont boot Date: 3 Nov 1993 19:36:43 GMT Organization: Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman MT, 59717 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2b918b$6ki@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2b74rm$gqi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: schizo.coe.montana.edu In article <2b74rm$gqi@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Fred Gruner <fgruner@ehsn10.cen.uiuc.edu> wrote: >I have an AST Powerexec 4/SL. It wont boot the boot disk for BSD (I >tried both the IDE versions.) I guess I am not totally sure what kind >of drive the internal one is (notebook removable). When it tries to >boot, it just looks at the disk for a about a second, and the sits, >nothing ever comes on the screen. I have the exact same problem with the color model. FreeBSD boot disks and NetBSD boot disks don't even get started. BSDI boot disks start, get a tad further, then barf and die. Linux works flawlessly on it, I would suggest you run with that. -- Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager (406) 994-4780 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717 osyjm@cs.montana.edu